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Local Led Kokoda > Expedition Overview

Project Supported : $20 from your expedition fee will be used to purchase and install environmentally safe eco-toilets along the Kokoda Track. These toilets will ensure the Track remains pristine for generations to come and help local communities.

In 2010 we will be running several Eco-Toilet Installation Expeditions that will combine walking the Track as well as installing an environmentally friendly eco-toilet. If you would like to help protect this pristine environment and walk the Track, please consider these expeditions.

For those that want both the physical hallenge of Kokoda as well as the historical knowledge of the Track, why not check out our Australian Led Kokoda Expeditions?

HIGHLIGHTS
-Get a deeper understanding of what Australian soldiers endured during WWII
-Awesome jungle terrain and river crossings (great swimming)
-Trek through some of the most pristine primary rain forests in the world
-Meet wonderful village people with beautiful singing voices
-Push your body and spirit to new levels of achievement

OVERVIEW
As interest in Australia's cultural identity and recent history grows, walking the Kokoda Track has become a rite of passage for a new generation of Australians.

Walking the Kokoda Track involves 50 hours of hiking over 90km of sharp, timbered ridges, steep-sided valleys and fast flowing rivers. Vantage points along the Track reveal magnificent mountain landscapes, and a wide variety of flora and fauna is encountered. Trekkers pass through local villages where descendents of the wartime "fuzzy wuzzy angels" continue to live simple traditional lifestyles while providing a warm welcome to passing trekkers.

The best time of the year to walk the Track is the dry season, from May to October. Walking during the wet season is also possible but is much more challenging because the Track is muddy and slippery, and river crossings may even be impassable after rain.

No Roads Expeditions offers guided Kokoda Track expeditions which can be booked for any week of the year for any group size from 1 upwards. We also have scheduled departures that anyone is welcome to join. All food, equipment and a Local Guide are provided. You only need to bring your personal gear and bedding.

We take a slightly different approach from some other trek operators who camp out every night of the trek and fly all food and drink in for the occasion, thus almost needing a camel train to carry all their supplies. We engage village guest houses along the Track to supply accommodation and some meals for our trekkers and porters, thus not only reducing the amount of food and equipment carried by the trekking party, but also injecting greater economic benefits into the micro-economies of the village communities along the Track.

Our food includes coconut milk curries, vegetarian pastas, fried rice, prawn crackers, damper etc. We use no rehydratable vegetables and we don't supply baked beans, just delicious and nutritious meals.

No Roads also supplies a portable shower tent so you can either wash in the rivers without soap or in our shower with soap which is kept away from water courses. We supply the soap. We can even provide a hot shower anywhere along the Track.

Our Porters are well paid, well fed and motivated to provide you with a great experience. They set up tents, boil water, help you along the Track and at night, sing songs. On our trek you will sleep in village guest houses for half the nights along the Track. The other nights involve camping in locations where there are no villages (bush camps).

It has been 4 years in the making and now No Roads is confident its local Guides are ready to take you across the Track. Our Guide team is experienced in First Aid as well as being the best bush craftsman around, knowing and understanding the environment you will be walking in.

Note: This 8 day 7 night trek is a demanding walk that requires an above-average level of fitness.

Click here to read one of our trekkers Blogs, Justin Kibell.